Fiona MacNeill, who sings alto in the GSA Choir, writes about her experience of rehearsing Angel of the Battlefield – composed by Cecilia McDowall, with lyrics by Clara Barton and Seán Street. In my professional role I help individuals and teams make sense of complex working environments, to identify patterns, [...]

Poet, Seán Street, whose lyrics are being set to music for Composeher by Cecilia McDowall, discusses the relationship between words and music in their work, Angel of the Battlefield. Reflecting on the relationship between composer, poet and subject further into the Composeher project, there are, it seems to me, some [...]

Last year Cecilia McDowall invited the poet, Seán Street, to write a text for her to set to music for Composeher. In his three poems Seán has seamlessly woven together his words with those of the remarkable nineteenth century pioneering nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton. [...]

Science, medicine and healing... It is very special indeed to be a part of the ambitious Composeher project to create new choral music to be performed by the Glasgow School of Art Choir. I love writing for choral forces, large or small, amateur or professional, accompanied or a cappella. [...]